Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 522
on and operation of suchships the Americans had special advantages and manifested peculiar ingenu-ity. For forty years the American sailing clipper, whose fine lines made itstanch and speedy, had been li the type and model of excellence in ship-building ; but before the middle of the century the… … A CLIPPER SHIP. the present day,-six changes which mark the epochs in the history of thesubstitution of steam and steel for sail and wood. The first step m the evo-lution was taken when the steam engine and the paddle-wheel took the placeof wind and sails. Like most epoch-making changes, this one…
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